He had more than once seen these sprites dancing of an evening in the rings of Banwan Bryddin, where the ‘wonder stone’ stood, but never since the day the stone was removed had any mortal seen them.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

First appeared a row of bare buildings, which stood along the hospital yard.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Thirdly, that home was woman's sphere after all, and the perfect roasting of beef, brewing of tea, and concocting of delectable puddings, an end worth living for if masculine commendation rewarded the labor.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

[A13] hiss, as when waves dash on the rocks or bubbles burst.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

4. The same river ran on as it had run on before, but the cheerful faces that had once been reflected in its stream had passed away.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

The wall then on each side has its bends 179 carried down to the river, and from this point the return walls stretch along each bank of the stream in the form of a rampart of baked bricks: and the city itself is full of houses of three and four stories, and the roads by which it is cut up run in straight lines, including the cross roads which lead to the river; and opposite to each road there were set gates in the rampart which ran along the river, in many in number as the ways, 180 and these also were of bronze and led like the ways 181 to the river itself.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

Formerly it was assumed that this similarity was the result of borrowing between groups.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

His first impulse was to denounce Balsamo to the magistrates of the town; but on further reflection he was afraid of the ridicule that a full exposure of all the circumstances would draw upon him; he therefore took the truly Italian resolution of being revenged on Balsamo, by murdering him at the first convenient opportunity.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

But when he is contending for prizes and other distinctions, he is afraid to incur a loss which is to be repaid only by barren honour; in time of war he fights with a small part of his resources, and usually keeps his money and loses the victory.
— from The Republic by Plato

Perhaps the church and seat of the patriarchs might be enriched with a repository of books; but if the ponderous mass of Arian and Monophysite controversy were indeed consumed in the public baths, a philosopher may allow, with a smile, that it was ultimately devoted to the benefit of mankind.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The reptiles of Big Black Mountains, Harlan County, Kentucky. Copeia, 1950:100-107.
— from Life History and Ecology of the Five-Lined Skink, Eumeces fasciatus by Henry S. (Henry Sheldon) Fitch

In fine hotels, yes—but fine hotels were the common refuge of butcher, baker, floor-walker, thief, swell, and each had approximately the same attention; and all she now felt she had really learned were a few such matters as the use of table silver and finger bowls.
— from Children of the Whirlwind by Leroy Scott

The amount burned between the time of weighing the alcohol and the beginning of the experiment was calculated from the rate of burning before the experiment and this amount subtracted from the total burned from the time that the lamp was weighed before being sealed in until the end, when it was weighed the second time.
— from Respiration Calorimeters for Studying the Respiratory Exchange and Energy Transformations of Man by Thorne M. (Thorne Martin) Carpenter

wkere's the man e're read Ought begged by Thee from those Alive or Dead?
— from The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher in Ten Volumes Volume I. by John Fletcher

The consul repeatedly offered battle, but the king persisted in declining it; and the combats between the light troops, although the Romans gained some advantages in them, produced no material alteration.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

It is not by the help of gold or gems that I hope to render myself acceptable to that Almighty Father who has mercifully removed from me the reproach of barrenness, but rather by resignation to his will, and a sense of my own nothingness."
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

The naive habit of mind which, in the sixth century before Christ, prompted successive Greek thinkers to define reality in terms [ 224 ] of water, air, and fire, is in this respect one with that exhibited in Dr. Samuel Johnson's smiting the ground with his stick in curt refutation of Bishop Berkeley's idea-philosophy.
— from The Approach to Philosophy by Ralph Barton Perry

Savary says they had never felt the cold so severe in Poland—and that they ran a risk of being buried in the snow.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I